Kentucky Foreign Registration›Annual report
The Kentucky annual report for an authorized foreign LLC
Every foreign LLC with a Kentucky certificate of authority files an annual report between January 1 to June 30 each year, and the fee is $15. The first one is due the calendar year after authorization. A report not delivered by its due date is the first of five grounds on which the Secretary of State may begin revocation, so the window matters.
The annual report in brief
- Window
- January 1 to June 30
- Fee
- $15
- Amended report
- $15
- First report
- The calendar year after the year of authorization
- Statute
- KRS 14A.6-010
- Routes
- Online through FastTrack, or print and return by mail or in person
- Financial information
- None; the report only updates company information
The window, with examples
The statute gives one window: January 1 through June 30. An LLC authorized in March reports in the following January through June, and so does one authorized in December, which can mean a first report only weeks after approval. The window repeats every calendar year, so there is no anniversary date to track and no proration.
What the report lists
The report identifies the LLC and its home state, then the registered office and agent and the principal office address. A manager-managed LLC also gives each manager's name and business address. A member-managed LLC lists no members. Everything must be accurate as of signing. The state's annual report page adds that the filer confirms the principal and registered agent or office and either submits or confirms the managers' names and addresses.
Filing online or on paper
There are two routes on the state's annual report page: file online, or print the form and deliver it by mail or in person. Either way it is signed, dated and sent with the $15 fee. Officer or manager changes can be made on the report itself, on an attached sheet, or in the online system.
If the report is incomplete
A report that omits something the statute requires is returned with written notice, which may be electronic, and it does not count as delivered until the corrected version is accepted. That matters near June 30: a report bounced on the last day can leave the entity late. File in the opening months of the window.
Amending a filed report
If you notice an error after filing, an amended annual report costs $15. Use it for a manager or an address that was wrong. A change in the registered agent or the principal office is better handled by the statements designed for them, which cost $10 and $10.
What a missed report can lead to
A report that misses its due date is the first of the revocation grounds. After the state's mailed notice, the entity gets 60 days to fix the problem, as the fines and revocation page explains. For this ground the fix is filing the report within that period.
A calendar view of the first two years
Authorized in the autumn of one year, an LLC owes nothing more to Kentucky until January 1 of the next, when the window opens. It files by June 30 and pays $15. The window then reopens the following January. In each year, the filing is an update of the same few items: the offices and, for a manager-managed LLC, the managers.
Reports and withdrawal
An LLC that plans to leave Kentucky should file the report that falls due before it withdraws, so that the certificate is not in default when the Form WFE is filed. See the Form WFE page.
Filing the annual report
Open the window
January 1 of the year after authorization, then every January.
Confirm the offices
Registered agent and office, and the principal office.
List or confirm managers
Only if the LLC is manager-managed.
Sign, date and pay
$15 online or by check.
Save the filed copy
And diary next January.
Annual report questions
Is the Kentucky annual report really annual?
Yes. It is filed every calendar year, in the window from January 1 to June 30.
Does it ask for financial information?
No. Kentucky says it only updates company information.
What if I miss June 30?
The state may begin revocation by mailing notice, and the company has sixty days to cure.
Our fee and Kentucky's
Start my Kentucky filing
KY+ $90 Kentucky fee
$199
- Form FBE, the Certificate of Authority (Foreign Business Entity), completed from your answers
- The signed statements Kentucky wants from your agent and your authorized signer, collected for you
- A Kentucky registered office and agent: ours, or the ones you already use
- Online submission through FastTrack, the file-stamped record, and the county clerk copy prepared
- Renewal: after the first year, the agent service renews at $149 a year
Kentucky's $90 is its own line at checkout. The county clerk bills separately for its copy. $199 plus the state fee, including your first year of registered agent service; after that the agent service renews at $149 a year.
Sources
- Kentucky Secretary of State, business filing fees
- Kentucky FastTrack, apply for a certificate of authority
- KRS 14A.6-010, annual report
- Kentucky Form FBE, certificate of authority for a foreign business entity
- Kentucky Secretary of State, annual reports
- Kentucky Secretary of State, business filing FAQs
- Kentucky Form RAC, changing a registered agent or registered office
- Kentucky Form POC, moving a principal office address
- KRS 14A.9-080, procedure for revocation
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